he perdido cinco kilosI've lost five kilos;había perdido mucha sangreshe had lost a lot of blood;ha perdido mucho dinero en la bolsashe has lost a lot of money on the stock market;no tienes nada que perderyou have nothing to lose

te he perdido

perder el conocimientoto lose consciousness

perder la costumbreto get out of the habit

perder algo de vistato lose sight of sth

nunca pierde de vista el fin que persiguehe never loses sight of his goal;no lo pierdas de vistadon't let him out of your sight;conviene no perder de vista que ...we mustn't forget that ...;we mustn't lose sight of the fact that ...

era muy guapo, pero ha perdido bastantehe isn't nearly as good-looking as he used to be;ha perdido mucho en mi estimaciónhe has gone down a lot in my estimation

3[+tela]to fade

4

echar a perder[+comida, sorpresa]to ruin;spoil;[+oportunidad]to waste

has echado a perder la sorpresa

echarse a perder[+comida]to go off;[+sorpresa]to be ruined;be spoiled

pronominal verb

perderse

1[+persona]to get lost

tenía miedo de perdermeI was afraid of getting lost o losing my way;se perdieron en el bosquethey got lost in the wood;se perdió en un mar de contradiccioneshe got lost in a mass of contradictions;¡piérdete!get lost! (familiar)

Conjugations

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